Word: richer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many exasperated humorists still find that the primary also-rans offered them richer fare than the winners. Ronald Reagan captured the Texas primary, concluded Mark Russell, because he promised to extend the state's borders southward to Panama and install an exact-change lane in the canal. (Reagan's Panama hat is now worn by California Senatorial Candidate S.I. Hayakawa, who insists: "We should keep the canal. We stole it fair and square.") Chevy Chase on NBC's Saturday Night rather sickly reported that George Wallace, "aiming to set the record straight" about his physical qualifications...
That compelling American purpose of getting rich (or at least richer) and enjoying it is a key point in this fall's political argument...
...stories of the day, the proceedings of the state senate in Atlanta, and even advertisements for patent medicines hawked during the yellow fever epidemic of the period-a plague that will undoubtedly provide some of the melodrama for GWTW II. Plotting possible ways for Scarlett and Rhett "to get richer and richer," she leafs through the financial pages to see what was happening on the cotton and sugar exchanges...
...beautiful birth, all rosy mist and hidden sunlight," enthused the curator of Dartmouth's Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Jan van der Marck, a longtime collaborator of Christo's. "It can't be owned or rented or bought. The artist doesn't get any richer, but you do." But was it, a reporter asked, another Great Wall of China? Smiling, Christo revised his 1968 opinion. "No, it is not a Wall of China! China Great Wall built with purpose, therefore not a work of art. Work of art must be unusable! This fence unusable...
...Disney would lose some of its wonder-and its profits. But before his own death in 1971, Roy Disney, who succeeded his younger brother, and a cadre of post-Walt executives had turned Walt Disney Productions into a thriving empire of fantasy. Today the company is bigger and richer than ever. Profits flow in from Disney's two successful theme parks, Disneyland in California and the magic kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, from film rentals and television, from re-releases of such longtime favorites as Bambi, Pinocchio and Fantasia, and from sales of record albums, Mickey Mouse...